Is the Gulf War now stretching its shadow into the Indian Ocean? That question is no longer rhetorical. It is strategic — and it matters deeply to New Delhi. The reported sinking of IRIS Dena by a US submarine nearly 370 nautical miles off the edge of Sri Lanka’s international waters has triggered more than…
Washington: US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth acknowledged on Wednesday that some Iranian air attacks may still hit their targets even as he asserted that US military superiority is quickly giving it control of the Islamic Republic’s airspace. The US has spared “no expense or capability” to enhance air defense systems to protect American forces and…
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi on Wednesday night and urged him to increase the sanctioned strength of IPS officers to the state in view of its growing administrative and security needs. The two leaders also discussed the recent surrender of several senior Maoist leaders before…
New Delhi: H K Dua, a distinguished journalist and a veteran of Indian public life who held the rare distinction of helming editorial operations at four of India’s leading newspapers, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 88. He breathed his last peacefully this afternoon at a private hospital, a member of his family…
Kolkata: A five-match series against India on similar black soil surfaces in the lead up to the T20 World Cup proved invaluable, said explosive New Zealand opener Finn Allen after powering the Kiwis to the T20 World Cup final with a nine-wicket win over South Africa here on Wednesday. Allen lit up the Eden Gardens…
Chennai: The opposition AIADMK on Wednesday nominated its sitting MP M Thambidurai for the biennial election to the Rajya Sabha on March 16, while allotting a seat to its ally, the PMK. Following a decision by the party, AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami informed that Thambidurai would be renominated. The party has allotted one…
New Delhi/Colombo: In a significant escalation of the West Asia crisis, a US submarine on Wednesday torpedoed and sank an Iranian warship in international waters off Sri Lanka’s coast when it was returning after participating in the Milan naval exercise, a multilateral wargame hosted by India. US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, confirming the strike, said…
The coming round of Rajya Sabha elections may not grab primetime headlines like a Lok Sabha battle, but their political consequences could be far more enduring. As polls for 37 seats across 10 states approach, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) appears poised to consolidate — and possibly expand — its strength…
In 1960, long before laptops, cloud computing, or artificial intelligence entered public vocabulary, J. C. R. Licklider wrote a visionary paper titled Man–Computer Symbiosis. He did not predict machines replacing humans. Instead, he imagined something far more sophisticated: a tight coupling between human cognition and computational power. Licklider compared this relationship to the fig tree…
A recent trip to Tirupati offered this writer the opportunity to discover an extraordinary place, despite having visited the temple town several times earlier, including a year of college study there in 1974. The place may be new to this writer, but its history stretches back over 2,200 years. One wondered whether he was the…
